{"product_id":"sky-of-my-heart","title":"Sky of My Heart","description":"One of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active  today, New York Polyphony is renowned for it's  innovative programming ranging from Gregorian chant  to contemporary commissions. On Sky of my Heart, the  selection spans over four hundred years of musical  history and bears witness to this vocal ensemble's  commitment to discovering and developing new works  that augment it's core early music repertoire.    Some of the works performed here deal with the  essential themes of life, death and the afterlife and have  been inspired by personal bereavement (Smith) or by  the impact of Covid confinement (Moravec). Others are  steeped in a spiritual atmosphere, whether religious  (Byrd, Moody, Tavener and McGlade) or meditative  (Naito). The contemporary works, some of which were  written at the behest of New York Polyphony, are firmly  rooted in the rich history of plainsong, while at the same  time featuring some very contemporary harmonies.    The vocal ensemble is joined by LeStrange Viols in three  pieces: My Days by Nico Muhly, a ritualized tribute to  the early 17th-century English composer Orlando  Gibbons, The Silver Swan by Gibbons himself, which  brings the programme to an appropriately quiet and  poignant close, and Byrd's Agnus Dei. The viol ensemble  adds a colour that is both appropriate for Gibbons and  original in it's treatment of sound.","brand":"BIS","offers":[{"title":"SACD","offer_id":50001446142232,"sku":"7318599927190","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4417562-3379499.jpg?v=1777485420","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/sky-of-my-heart","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}